“- Mrs. Elsa 'Rosalie' Bannister: I was taught to think about love in Chinese.- Michael O'Hara: The way a Frenchman thinks about laughter in French?- Mrs. Elsa 'Rosalie' Bannister: The Chinese say, it is difficult for love to last long; therefore, one who loves passionately is cured of love - in the end.- Michael O'Hara: Well, that's a hard...” (continue)(continue reading)Rita Hayworth - Elsa Bannister
Orson Welles - Michael O'Hara

“- Maria: Carnival is the last three days preceding the Lent, which in Roman Catholic countries is given up to feasting and merrymaking. Then, come the fasting and the penance.- Gilda: In other words, make hay while the sun shines.- Maria: You have a strange language, little one.- Gilda: Oh, I mean, three days of sowing wild oats, then comes...” (continue)(continue reading)Rosa Rey - Maria
Rita Hayworth - Gilda

“- Gilda: This vacuum I'm living in, mind giving me a reason?- Johnny Farrell: Not at all. You've had such a full life up to now; I thought a little peace and quiet would do you good. Give you time to think!- Gilda: Think about what?- Johnny Farrell: Would it be too corny to say: your sins.- Gilda: Yes, it would.- Johnny Farrell: Well, I...” (continue)(continue reading)Rita Hayworth - Gilda
Glenn Ford - Johnny Farrell

“- Johnny Farrell: From now on, you go anywhere you please, with anyone you please. But, I'm gonna take you there and I'm gonna pick you up and bring you home. Get that? Exactly the way I'd - take and pick up his laundry.- Gilda: Shame on you, Johnny. Any psychiatrist would tell you that your thought associations are very revealing.”Glenn Ford - Johnny Farrell
Rita Hayworth - Gilda

“- Ballin Mundson: Now then, before we were interrupted, I believe we were about to drink a toast. So: disaster to the wench who did wrong by our Johnny. No, Gilda? You won't drink to that?- Gilda: Why not? Disaster to the wench!”George Macready - Ballin Mundson
Rita Hayworth - Gilda

“- Virginia Brush: Either he's an old friend of the family's or there's something in your eye.- Amy Lind: I never saw him before in my life until a few minutesago when I passed Fisher's drug store.- Virginia Brush: He followed you here?- Amy Lind: No. I followed him.”

“- Amy Lind: I'm proud of my uniform. It's a sign to the men that women not only have the same right to work as the men, but that in the eyes...- Virginia Brush: Ooh hush, Amy. You're not at a suffragette meeting now!”Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland - Amy Lind
Rita Hayworth - Virginia Brush